PLACE CORPS

KINGSTON FELLOWSHIP

Program Details

Course Name: PLACE CORPS KINGSTON FELLOWSHIP

Duration: 10 months

Dates: AUGUST-MAY

Age: 17 TO 22

AUDIENCE: KINGSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT RESIDENTS

Capacity: 8-16 FELLOWS

educators: Home Team + Guests

Where: Place Corps at KINGSTON, NY

TUITION: $0 - $30,400**

** THE MAJORITY OF FELLOWS RECEIVE FULL NEED-BASED SCHOLARSHIP

INCLUDED: MATERIALS, MENTORSHIP, TRANSPORTATION, RESIDENCIES, WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY MEALS, STIPEND, COMPLETION AWARD

 

The Place Corps Kingston Fellowship is a 10 month place-based fellowship program for 16 Kingston residents in transition. This fellowship helps support developing next steps to the question: now what?

Launching in 2022, 16 fellows will explore their possibilities as co-creators of the future. Place Corps learning happens with real-life applications supported by a network of local experts and professionals working in fields like: Entrepreneurship & Finance, Urban and Regenerative Farming, Storytelling & New Media, Community Organizing, Design-Build, the Arts and others.

NOW WHAT? Discover your answer to this question with Place Corps!

A Year to Grow:

Practical Skills, Radical Living, Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy, Place-Based, Designing, Building, Creating, Leading

Place Corps Kingston Fellowship is radical training rooted in the practical skills to thrive now and transition to the future we are co-designing.

These practical skills include:

  • Universal life skills

  • Universal work skills

  • Personal practices for resiliency 

  • Vocabulary of possibility

  • Connection to place 

｡･:*:･ﾟ’★ Fellows develop projects, presentations, and proposals during the 10-month fellowship that prepares them for next steps post-fellowship. Place Corps has identified four key trajectories post-fellowship completion:

Entrepreneurship ｡･: College *:･ﾟVocation ･ﾟ’ Civic Engagement ★

 

The Kingston Fellowship serves:

- Students moving from theory into action

- Young adults preparing for next professional steps into entrepreneurship, higher education, civic engagement, or vocation

- People looking to discover their passion and learn a new way of living in this world

Sample workshops, presentations & classes:

  • Natural Dye with Foraged Vegetation
  • Oral History Training
  • Urban Farming
  • Entrepreneurship Training
  • Climate Solutions
  • Personal Purpose Mapping
  • Community Design Challenge
  • Arts as Activism
  • Financial Literacy Series
  • Building Sustainable Local Economies
 
 
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
— John Dewey